Yeonmi Par’s Story Serves As A Powerful Reminder Of The Problems Facing Refugees

The plight of refugees around the world have come into sharp focus with the problems seen with Syrian refugees flooding into the European Union in 2016; Yeonmi Park is a North Korean defector who has been using her own experiences as a refugee to raise awareness of the problems this group faces during and after they leave their home nation. Park is known among many human rights awareness groups for providing details of the problems she faced at the hands of human traffickers and the ongoing problems she continues to face from the leaders of the Communist regime of North Korea.Yeonmi has revealed her own thoughts on life in North Korea, which she experienced first hand over the course of her childhood and teenage years; Park has a unique life experience that saw her live in the government elite and with the lower classes in North Korean society. Throughout her life Park has seen the many different issues facing people of all classes in North Korea, including the famine problems that almost every person in the closed society face on a daily basis.